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by
timothy
on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @10:22AM
from the friends-like-these dept.

itwbennett writes: FireEye researchers have found a way for exploits to trigger a specific function in EMET that disables all protections it enforces for other applications. The researchers believe that their new technique, which essentially uses EMET against itself, is more reliable and easier to use than any previously published bypasses. It works against all supported versions of EMET — 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 — but Microsoft patched the issue in EMET 5.5, which was released on Feb. 2. So if you haven't upgraded yet, now would be a good time to do it. For more about how the technique works, read FireEye's blog post.

You sir are fitting to work as help desk for the rest of your life. In case you didn't notice yet, one size does not fit all. If you can figured that out then you have a fighting chance at becoming a good technology advisor which will open up many doors.

You sir are fitting to work as help desk for the rest of your life. In case you didn't notice yet, one size does not fit all. If you can figured that out then you have a fighting chance at becoming a good technology advisor which will open up many doors.

You may have just won a space on my journal page with that sanctimonious quote. It took me 10 minutes to recover enough from laughing just to post this reply.

Because of this, sane people are conservative in deploying new versions.

Yeah, well, the problem with "new versions" of anything from Microsoft these days is they go to great lengths to not tell you what updates actually contain... they all just say "this fixes issues with Windows", don't highlight that "well, we're really installing telemetry and other shit to force you to Windows 10". You have to go to great pains to find out what an update actually contains (for instance you can't read anything on their

Re 'There used to be good divisions of Microsoft" are the marketing people making sure gpu's, OS and computer games work.
Enjoy the computer game OS and consider more secure options for all other computer related tasks.